"Spend like a celebrity (or at least browse like one)"
Shopping is like an Olympic sport in West Hollywood and the city plays host to locals and people from all over the world with one common goal: finding the hippest and trendiest fashions, furniture, and styles. With an emerging fashion scene on Sunset Plaza, the Avenues of Art & Design, and Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood is the center of new, fresh and young-spirited shopping.
SUNSET PLAZA
Nestled among the Georgian revival shops at Sunset Plaza are hip designer boutiques like Nicole Miller, Leona Edmiston, Armani A/X, and Badgley Mischka. H by Lorenzo, the finest of Italian shoe fashion, is the spot for favorites like Roberto Cavalli, who opened their sister store Just Cavalli across the street. Weary shoppers can find respite and view the parade at the Plaza’s sexy sidewalk cafes, popular spots with names like Cravings, Clafoutis, Chin Chin Cafe, Le Petit Four and Il Sole.
SUNSET STRIP
Along with nightclubs, restaurants and hotels, the Sunset Strip offers a fun variety of different places to shop, especially if your passion is books and music. Indie bookshop Book Soup is a hotbed of celebrity book signings and other fun events. Anther unique shop is Hustler Hollywood, the largest erotica store on the West Coast owned and operated by Larry Flynt’s daughter.
AVENUES OF ART & DESIGN (The Hip)
On Melrose, Beverly and Robertson, secluded and understated boutiques and shops define West Hollywood fashion. Euro-designs are found at trendsetters like Maxfield, while American fashion reigns at John Varvatos. Fine and decorative arts are showcased and savored at places such as Armani Casa and Minotti with their trendy, yet modern-elegant interior designs and home ware anchor a boulevard full of fine domestic and imported interior fashion.
SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD (Route 66)
This unique, eclectic and historic boulevard is home to a wide array of shops from gay bookstores to classic car showrooms. Circus of Books has reading material of interest to the gay and lesbian community and Heritage Car Classics displays vintage ‘rides.’ For the more adventurous consumer, Pleasure Chest sells products and clothing to spice up your life. Buy or sell clothes to Out of the Closet thrift store.
